Charles S. Singleton

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Charles S. Singleton (1909–1985) was an American scholar, writer, and critic of literature. He was an expert on the work of Dante Alighieri, but also of Giovanni Boccaccio. He wrote An Essay on the Vita Nuova (1949), and the famous Dante Studies (I vol. in 1954). He studied, as did the German critic Erich Auerbach, the allegorical interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy, work which he also translated into English, in six volumes.^[1] Irma Brandeis was one of his disciples.

References

↑ italica.rai.it; danteonline.it

External links

Singleton's death in nytimes.com

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Name	Singleton, Charles S.
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Short description	American scholar
Date of birth	1909
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Date of death	1985
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